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1 month ago | 
nature.com | Jedediah F. Brodie |Cheng Chen |Oliver Wearn |Eleanor M. Slade |Peter Williams |Scott Goetz | +5 more
replying to: J. Geldmann et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08512-8 (2025). In the accompanying Comment, Geldmann et al.1 incorrectly claim that protected area (PA) efficacy cannot be established without biodiversity data that predates establishment of the PA.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Shubhi Sharma |Kevin Winner |Jussi Mäkinen |Walter Jetz
Introduction How biodiversity will respond to rapid environmental changes is one of the central questions in ecology and conservation biology. When exposed to a new climate or environment, a species can either retain its ancestral niche (niche conservatism) and potentially undergo local extinction, shift its current distribution (niche tracking), or evolve to adapt to novel conditions by diverging away from the ancestral niche (niche divergence) (Wiens and Graham 2005).
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
nature.com | Rebecca A. Senior |Walter Jetz
AbstractThreatened species are by definition species that are in need of assistance. In the absence of suitable conservation interventions, they are likely to disappear soon1. There is limited understanding of how and where conservation interventions are applied globally, or how well they work2,3.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Jeremy Cohen |Walter Jetz
AbstractAs climate change accelerates, species may survive in place thanks to niche plasticity or adaptation or must redistribute to conserve their environmental niches. Examples of such geographical range shifts abound, but to date an assessment of species success in retaining niches and limiting their climate change exposure is missing.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jeremy Cohen |Walter Jetz
1 INTRODUCTION Understanding and addressing the global biodiversity crisis requires large volumes of ecological information compiled continuously from across the globe (Anderson, 2018; Gonzalez et al., 2023; Meyer et al., 2015). To date, the acquisition and maintenance of this information continues to meet the requirements only insufficiently for research, conservation, and policy (Jetz et al., 2019; Oliver et al., 2021).
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
nature.com | Jedediah F. Brodie |Cheng Chen |Oliver Wearn |Eleanor M. Slade |Peter Williams |Scott Goetz | +5 more
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06410-z Published online 23 August 2023In the version of the article initially published, the Extended Data tables were inadvertently truncated. They have now been moved to Supplementary Information, where they can be viewed in full. Two of the originally published Extended Data (now Supplementary) tables in our article contained values that had not been updated from previous runs of the analytical models.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Will Rogers |Scott W Yanco |Walter Jetz
AbstractUnderstanding the geographic distributions of animals is central to ecological inquiry and conservation planning. Movement-based habitat selection models, like discrete-time step-selection functions, are useful for identifying key environmental attributes which animals select upon and can nearly perfectly capture preference patterns between environmental conditions. However, predictions based only on selection can often fail to accurately describe true geographic distributions.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
nature.com | Rikki Gumbs |Ryan Bates |Michael Hoffmann |Benjamin Tapley |Samuel T. Turvey |Walter Jetz | +1 more
AbstractHuman-driven extinction threatens entire lineages across the Tree of Life. Here we assess the conservation status of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history, using three policy-relevant approaches. First, we calculate an index of threat to overall evolutionary history, showing that we expect to lose 86–150 billion years (11–19%) of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history over the next 50–500 years.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
nature.com | Mário Moura |Walter Jetz
replying to S. Button & A. Borzée Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02312-5 (2024)In a reflection on our recent research on terrestrial vertebrate species discovery1, Button and Borzée2 argue that a time-to-event framework does not adequately account for sampling effort over time and that past rates would not be predictive of future rates of species discovery.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
nature.com | Nico Lang |Walter Jetz |Konrad Schindler
Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02206-6, published online 28 September 2023. In the version of the article initially published, the top label of the scale bar in Fig. 2a read “>15” but has now been amended to “>50” in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
